Original upload date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:40:08 GMT
This bizarre little special celebrated Walt Disney World's "Tencennial" anniversary in 1981. The special aired on January 21st, 1982. Watch the adventures of Dean Jones and Michele Lee, with their chi
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ldren Ricky Schroder and Dana Plato, as they visit Walt Disney World with their bizarre friend (cowboy Eileen Brennan) and an odd mute Asian child that she seems to have kidnapped. Also, there's Michael Keaton. And the Gatlin Brothers, and John Schneider. Don't worry, it's even weirder than it sounds.
The family departs for Walt Disney World in a musical montage, meets up at the resort, and the Gatlin Brothers perform at Fort Wilderness's Pioneer Hall.
Then we get two truly bizarre musical numbers - Dean Jones and Ricky Schroder have a painful duet about familial estrangement, and Dana Plato and Michele Lee go shopping at the Contemporary Resort Hotel. Because, you know. Disney World. Afterwards, John Schneider sings an odd little number on the lawn of Cinderella Castle. We then get some very rare footage of the Contemporary Resort's "Top of the World" restaurant, and have a completely unnecessary flashback.
As the special wraps up, we're treated to what might be the single strangest medley in the history of television. After all, it's Walt Disney World - the place so magical it'll make your child give up his calculator forever!